Ben: nice take on digital / electoral geography [footnote for the non-British: safe constituencies are largely deprived areas]. However research also finds that more election candidates have websites in 'wired' constituencies/electorates than in digitally deprived constituencies (valid in UK and Australia, I suspend judgement on th erest of the world :). Interesting paradox: not an 'overt' issue, but an issue nevertheless. Wainer ----------------------- Wainer Lusoli Research Fellow @ ESRI University of Salford http://www.lusoli.info w.lusoli@salford.ac.uk +44 (0)161 295 5126 -----------------------
-----Original Message----- From: air-l-aoir.org-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-aoir.org-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Ben Anderson Sent: 26 April 2005 08:30 To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-l] uk election 2005
some of you may also be interested in estimations of broadband internet penetration by UK parliamentary constituency developed by a consulting group called Point Topic. We supplied some of the underlying data for this (estimates of narrowband household internet access by census ward).
http://www.point-topic.com/content/dslanalysis/UK+election+guide.htm The geography you see is essentially the geography of wealth & urban dwelling in the UK with some interesting exceptions. IMHO the 'digital divide' is unlikely to be a strong election issue :-) Ben On 24 Apr 2005, at 00:46, Wright, Ashley wrote:
Hello AIR list.
Some of you may be interested in the following, http://www.e-dem.org.uk/
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